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I contend that "form plus function equals art." Therefore, I decided to post some photos of my "Oil Rig" computer in order to show anyone interested what one can do with their builds...art-wise, that iis...all while keeping their circuit components cool, quiet, and safe from dust and other harmfull things. While it does not immediately resonate with most of the topics on this forum, it does suggest some things that one can do to protect their "best build's" circuits from that which harms them the most--heat and dust. I said all that to say this...basically, anything electronic can be cooled (and kept dust free) by submerging it in mineral oil. One can run a pump and pass the oil through a heat exchanger if the oil needs to be cooled.
Following are photos of my "oil Rig" build. It was a real monster with 4 Radeon HD6990 grapics cards, five Thermaltake 750 watt power supplies (one main, which could be smaller, and four slaves for the GPUs), a real cool CPU cooler, a 350GPH pump (puts out way less with oil), some steampunky copper pipe I soldered together a HVAC heat exchanger, and some decorations. All that was attached to a custom acrylic housing and place into a twenty gallon acrylic fish tank filled with thirteen gallons of horse laxitive (mineral oil). These units could be used for alt-coin mining, code cracking, as a workstation for designing, and/or gaming (I am using them for design work).
Since then, I had pulled it down, and to split it into two oil rigs with two GPUs and three power supplies each. I didn't need all four GPUs for design work. That way, there is a workstation computer for both, for my son, and I. One can use these, as a substitute for expensive workstation cards when doing CAD/CAM and/or CAE. I currently have it apart, yet again, to revamp the thermal interfaces on the GPUs and CPUs, as well as integrate the heat exchanger into a homemade food dehydrator. Its going back together now. Incidentally, I do not need to use the central heat during the winter, and it is literally silent, as it chugs along. One can decorate them any way they can imagine and in my case, it causes a meditative atmosphere reminding me of my wonderful wife. Think of what some cool solid state Bedini units would look like built similarly (electronic circuits love the oil), that is, the ones you are satisfied with, tuning wise. BTW, the Cray Supercomputer was originally cooled with oil
I hope this information inspires someone.
James
Following are photos of my "oil Rig" build. It was a real monster with 4 Radeon HD6990 grapics cards, five Thermaltake 750 watt power supplies (one main, which could be smaller, and four slaves for the GPUs), a real cool CPU cooler, a 350GPH pump (puts out way less with oil), some steampunky copper pipe I soldered together a HVAC heat exchanger, and some decorations. All that was attached to a custom acrylic housing and place into a twenty gallon acrylic fish tank filled with thirteen gallons of horse laxitive (mineral oil). These units could be used for alt-coin mining, code cracking, as a workstation for designing, and/or gaming (I am using them for design work).
Since then, I had pulled it down, and to split it into two oil rigs with two GPUs and three power supplies each. I didn't need all four GPUs for design work. That way, there is a workstation computer for both, for my son, and I. One can use these, as a substitute for expensive workstation cards when doing CAD/CAM and/or CAE. I currently have it apart, yet again, to revamp the thermal interfaces on the GPUs and CPUs, as well as integrate the heat exchanger into a homemade food dehydrator. Its going back together now. Incidentally, I do not need to use the central heat during the winter, and it is literally silent, as it chugs along. One can decorate them any way they can imagine and in my case, it causes a meditative atmosphere reminding me of my wonderful wife. Think of what some cool solid state Bedini units would look like built similarly (electronic circuits love the oil), that is, the ones you are satisfied with, tuning wise. BTW, the Cray Supercomputer was originally cooled with oil
I hope this information inspires someone.
James
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